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"Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News" teaches students how to write with the conversational simplicity required for radio and TV. This text draws on the Emmy Award-winning author's decades of professional experience in broadcast journalism. In addition to writing, the text also discusses the other elements that make up a good story--producing, reporting, shooting, editing, and ethics. The author's real-world perspective conveys the excitement of a career in journalism.

Introduction

How To Write The Right Words and Sentences

The Right Words, the Right Stuff

What You'll Learn-The Never Ending Story. ldquo;Shortrdquo; Is Better Than ldquo;Succinct.rdquo; Learn These, for a Start

Translating English into Better English

Translating Other Tongues Iito English

Be Dynamic When You Can

Don't Get Tense Over the Tense

Descriptive Versus Dull

Judgmental Verbs May Be Accurate, but Wrong

Words to Choose from, Carefully! Judgmental Adjectives and Adverbs Usually Are Dreadfully Unnecessary

Exercises to Hone Your Word Skills

The Wrong Way to Write It

What You'll Learn

The Terms of the Story

The Never Ending Story

Don't Abb

I Can't Hear You

Turning Numbers into Words

Turning $ into Dollars

Sounding Smart, Saying It Right

English 101, Revisited

English 101, Revisited Yet Again

When Time Doesn't Matter

The Important Thing About Commas

Giving It Some Punch

Exercises to Hone Your Writing Skills

Being Perfectly Clear

What You'll Learn

TMI (Too Much Information). If It's a Question, Answer It

Generalizing Is Always Wrong... or Is It, Generalizing Is Always Right?

Exercises to Hone Those Skills Even Sharper

The Right Way to Write It

What You'll Learn

Giving Credit Only Where Credit Is Due

Leaving Expert Judgment to Others

You Don't Always Have to Attribute Things, Your Instructor Says

Print Journalists Don't Write the Way They Talk

Crowds, Dead or Alive

Personalizing Complex Economics

Take My Word for It

The Final Potpourri

Exercises to Further Hone Your Writing Skills

Saying it Twice

What You'll Learn

The Terms of the Story

Is That a Fact?

Is That Gobbledygook?

You've Got Your Bite, Now You Write

Tag, You're It

Exercises to Say it Twice

The Story of the Story

What You'll Learn

The Terms of the Story

Is That the Telephone Ringing?

Start Strong, End Strong

The Sounds of Silence

Exercises to Test Your Judgment

But Before You Write..

Organizing Your Facts, Organizing Your Story

What You'll Learn

The Terms of the Story

Giving New Meaning To ldquo;Running to the Bathroom.rdquo; Figuring Out What to Keep, What to Cut